3rd Academy Awards (1929/30): Nominees and Winners

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

All Quiet on the Western Front – Universal
The Big House – Cosmopolitan
Disraeli – Warner Bros.
The Divorcee – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Love Parade – Paramount Famous Lasky

DIRECTING

Clarence Brown – Anna Christie; Romance
Robert Leonard – The Divorcee
Ernst Lubitsch – The Love Parade
Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
King Vidor – Hallelujah

ACTOR

George Arliss – Disraeli [1]
George Arliss – The Green Goddess [1]
Wallace Beery – The Big House
Maurice Chevalier – The Big Pond; The Love Parade
Ronald Colman – Bulldog Drummond; Condemned
Lawrence Tibbett – The Rogue Song

ACTRESS

Nancy Carroll – The Devil’s Holiday
Ruth Chatterton – Sarah and Son
Greta Garbo – Anna Christie; Romance
Norma Shearer – The Divorcee [2]
Norma Shearer – Their Own Desire [2]
Gloria Swanson – The Trespasser

WRITING

All Quiet on the Western Front – (George Abbott), (Maxwell Anderson), (Del Andrews) [3]
The Big House – Frances Marion
Disraeli – (Julian Josephson) [3]
The Divorcee – (John Meehan) [3]
Street of Chance – (Howard Estabrook) [3]

CINEMATOGRAPHY

All Quiet on the Western Front – (Arthur Edeson) [3]
Anna Christie – (William Daniels) [3]
Hell’s Angels – (Gaetano Gaudio), (Harry Perry) [3]
The Love Parade – (Victor Milner) [3]
With Byrd at the South Pole – Joseph T. Rucker, Willard Van Der Veer

ART DIRECTION

Bulldog Drummond – (William Cameron Menzies) [3]
King of Jazz – Herman Rosse
The Love Parade – (Hans Dreier) [3]
Sally – (Jack Okey) [3]
The Vagabond King – (Hans Dreier) [3]

SOUND RECORDING

The Big House – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
The Case of Sergeant Grischa – (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Tribby, Sound Director) [3]
The Love Parade – (Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department, Franklin Hansen, Sound Director) [3]
Raffles – (United Artists Studio Sound Department, Oscar Lagerstrom, Sound Director) [3]
Song of the Flame – (First National Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director) [3]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. [NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both Disraeli and The Green Goddess in his nomination, the award was announced for only the Disraeli performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed the Disraeli performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated the Disraeli performance over the other.]
2. [NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both The Divorcee and Their Own Desire in her nomination, the award was announced for only the The Divorcee performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed The Divorcee performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated the The Divorcee performance over the other.]
3. [NOTE: For the third Academy Awards no certificates of nomination were given out in this category, only the titles of the nominated films and their companies were listed. When the winners were revealed, only the names of the individuals involved with the winning achievements were announced. The name(s) of those credited with this achievement are indicated here in parens.]